Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up
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The sugar post currently on the front page got me thinking it could be fun to start a new thread to share all the unhealthy and gross foods you had as a kid, that you now look back and shake your head at (or still have as an indulgence, we're not here to judge lol). I'm sure this has been done before, but it's still fun to share...
We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!
My Mimi would make me sugar grapes, which was just regular grapes wetted and rolled in sugar, as if they aren't sweet enough already lol. But it was "our thing" and I always asked her to make them for me when we would go visit.
Mine are pretty tame haha
We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!
My Mimi would make me sugar grapes, which was just regular grapes wetted and rolled in sugar, as if they aren't sweet enough already lol. But it was "our thing" and I always asked her to make them for me when we would go visit.
Mine are pretty tame haha
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We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!
Haha! Yes, we had the same thing. We'd also make spaghetti sandwiches (spaghetti with meat sauce on white bread, sometimes with a slice of american cheese)-- I guess in a effort to make spaghetti as unhealthy as possible. I don't think it's gross though. I still do it (very, very) rarely as an adult, for the nostalgia.
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Nothing really unhealthy but definitely short on protein lol
Used to eat pasta with butter and parmesan cheese. Still do it's kinda amazing haha
Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal6 -
For some reason, when I was a really little kid, I just loved butter. I loved it so much I would frequently just take a bite out of the stick when no one was looking. I still like butter, but not that much.21
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mrsnattybulking wrote: »Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this probably tastes better than it sounds, but yeesh this sounds horrendous!! hahah9 -
My mum was a terrible cook. We grew up on things like Turkey twizzlers and chips, chicken Kiev and chips, chicken nuggets and chips (noticing a theme yet?)
Her other thing to do as we were active kids and went to dance class straight from school were sugar sandwiches (white bread, thick butter and sugar folded in half) or hot cross bun filled with butter, jam and thickly cut cheddar cheese to eat in the car on the way3 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this probably tastes better than it sounds, but yeesh this sounds horrendous!! hahah
It's one of the main ingredients mixed with mascarpone of a tiramisu; it's not that bad! haha
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Bread and butter with spaghetti here too!
Rice cereal: hot white rice loaded with condensed milk, butter and sugar. My neighbors used to give me grape jelly and American cheese on white bread sandwiches. Fried spam, bologna, or Vienna sausages. Park's pork roll sausage sandwiches where the meat was so greasy the bread melted onto the patty.4 -
I used to not eat egg whites. My mom would soft-boil my eggs, then I'd carefully eat the runny yolk with little rectangles of toast, avoiding the egg white like the plague.
Now I enjoy eggs in all forms - including the whites!
As a kid, I'd also only eat my McDonald's hamburgers with just buns and the patty. Nothing else on it. How bland can you get.0 -
I still love plain untoasted white bread with butter... lol. For us, pasta night was just pasta, sauce, and cheese.
Nothing too bad for me except canned veggies (green beans, yuck) and instant mashed potatoes. And that bechamel sauce my mom used to make... bleh.
Honestly, there just wasn't that much unhealthy/bad stuff in France.. just lots of pastries and cheese etc... but that definitely doesn't qualify as gross, lol!7 -
MishMashMisha wrote: »We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!
Haha! Yes, we had the same thing. We'd also make spaghetti sandwiches (spaghetti with meat sauce on white bread, sometimes with a slice of american cheese)-- I guess in a effort to make spaghetti as unhealthy as possible. I don't think it's gross though. I still do it (very, very) rarely as an adult, for the nostalgia.
That just reminded me of fried spaghetti sandwiches!! My mom would take left over spaghetti with the noodles and sauced mixed, and fry it with oil in a pan so there'd be crispy bits throughout, and have it open faced on toast. Sooooo good!2 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this probably tastes better than it sounds, but yeesh this sounds horrendous!! hahah
It's one of the main ingredients mixed with mascarpone of a tiramisu; it's not that bad! haha
It actually makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. At face value it sounded more strange lol1 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this probably tastes better than it sounds, but yeesh this sounds horrendous!! hahah
It's one of the main ingredients mixed with mascarpone of a tiramisu; it's not that bad! haha
It actually makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. At face value it sounded more strange lol
I saw a YT video about egg coffee recently, I want to say it's a Vietnamese thing according to the video?0 -
I still remember the 2 cups of white sugar into the clear pitcher with the small packet of Kool Aid mix. And we always had boxes of Tasty cakes in the cupboard.7
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »Maybe less healthy a raw egg yolk and 3tbsp sugar beaten fluffy with an espresso (I'm 5 at this point mindyou) and then dipped yesterday's dinner bread. Also still eat it because it's delicious but the macros are brutal
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this probably tastes better than it sounds, but yeesh this sounds horrendous!! hahah
It's one of the main ingredients mixed with mascarpone of a tiramisu; it's not that bad! haha
It actually makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. At face value it sounded more strange lol
I saw a YT video about egg coffee recently, I want to say it's a Vietnamese thing according to the video?
It's really just a shot of espresso in the egg mixture to flavour it (cause the 3tbs of sugar just isn't enough lol) It's more of a thick dessert you eat with a spoon or old bread not really "drinkable" like that Vietnamese coffee.
http://www.misya.info/ricetta/zabaione.htm1 -
newheavensearth wrote: »Rice cereal: hot white rice loaded with condensed milk, butter and sugar. My neighbors used to give me grape jelly and American cheese on white bread sandwiches. Fried spam, bologna, or Vienna sausages.
Yep, on all of this. My dad still likes the jelly and cheese sandwiches. I don't understand it at all!!2 -
I remember eating mayo and cheese sandwiches as a child. I want to vomit just thinking about eating that now.1
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Not sure what the issue is with white bread & butter... my mom used to have to have a small piece with *every single meal*. It's my 12 year old son's favorite thing too.
Now, you want to talk gross- my mom often made a can of corned beef hash with a poached egg over it. I had to sit at the table until I ate ("enough") of my dinner, and on hash nights, I just planned on a long night at the table0 -
I loved sugar as a kid (and still its my weakness in adulthood) but as a kid I made syrup sandwiches which is exactly what it sounds like plain untoasted bread with lots of syrup. so good then I would toss my cookies if I ate that now though lol. I also remember eating Doritos and plain Philadelphia cream cheese together sounded nasty but was actually really good. haven't done it in years so not sure if I would now.2
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Also into the plain white bread with too much butter. And my dad would spend hours making red sauce with loaded with veggies from the garden and meatballs for pasta, then get super mad because I wouldn't eat it and just eat buttered noodles with garlic salt.
When I stayed at my grandparent's, one of our regular snacks was microwaved pepperoni slices on plain white bread or fried bologna sandwiches. Odd, as they were both good cooks and normally healthy eaters. I think it started as something fast my grandfather could make after getting out of the mines late at night.1 -
I remember the white bread slathered in margarine along with spaghetti or ravioli. Horrors! haha
A lot of mine are just horrific to me now, but none of them are really that notable or disgusting. We went out a lot to Pizza Hut and always got bread sticks before our pizza, and never salad. My mom wasn't a bad cook but she took a lot of shortcuts and didn't do many veggies. The vegetables she did cook, I didn't like because they were very overcooked, especially carrots with roast & potatoes...the carrots were the texture of chewing gum and tasted horrible, lol.
As a kid and teen, so many meals ended with a Little Debbie snack cake. I especially liked the zebra ones and Swiss cake rolls, or peanut butter bars. Even at school (grades 6-12) I remember them selling Little Debbie oatmeal crème pies, Star Crunch & fudge rounds like crazy and everyone would eat those for lunch...so many snack cakes. I always thought of them as "real food" and not "candy" so on some level, I imagined them being lower calorie than a Snickers or Twix and now I know that wasn't necessarily the case at all - especially if I had a couple of them or an XL one.0
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